Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Ananda Coomaraswamy
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian philosopher Ananda Coomaraswamy.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.
Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!
It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .
Industry without art is brutality.
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.
The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.
What I have sought is to understand what has been said.
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